Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2021. There are 282 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 24, 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. On this date: In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch (kohk) announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. In 1913, New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway. In 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. (Presley underwent basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being shipped off to Germany.) In 1965, Ranger 9, a lunar probe launched three days earlier by NASA, crashed into the moon (as planned) after sending back more than 5,800 video...
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